Generous businesses, organisations and individuals have come together to support hundreds of disadvantaged children across the Exeter area in a fantastic display of unity.
In just 10 days, a total of almost £30,000 has been raised to buy devices for children most in need and most at risk of falling behind in their education due to the pandemic. Now, thanks to that generosity, primary schools in Exeter and children attending the Cranbrook Education Campus will be able to access a library of devices which will be loaned to children who are learning from home.
People are being asked to take a picture of their favourite tree in Exeter as part of a photographic competition.
The best picture will win a tree – kindly donated by Devon Tree Services - and a framed photograph of the picture. There is also an under-16 category for budding junior photographers, with the same prizes donated by the City Council.
The competition is being run by Exeter City Council in the run up to National Tree Week – 28 November to 6 December.
Cllr David Harvey, Lead Councillor for Environment and City Management, said: “Get photographing and...
Tributes have been paid to Exeter City Councillor Judy Pattison who died late last week at her Exeter home.
Cllr Pattison, 70, was the Labour Party member for Mincinglake and Whipton.
She was elected to office in Exeter in 2018, having previously served as a councillor in Camden in London. She was Mayor of Camden in 2002/3.
The Union Flag will be lowered at The Guildhall and Civic Centre and tributes will be paid at tomorrow’s Council meeting along with a minute’s silence.
Council Leader Phil Bialyk spoke of his sadness. “The whole Labour Group and...
Community groups and organisations are being encouraged to apply for what could be much needed funding.
Exeter City Council has relaunched its Ward Grant programme allowing groups to apply for up to £500 to support their activities.
The programme was suspended earlier in the year, due to the coronavirus outbreak but has now reopened again.
There’s also a chance to apply for the COVID-19 Community Action Fund, which is still running across the city. The Fund, which has been supported by a generous donation of £100,000 from the Exeter Chiefs Community Foundation,...
Exeter City Council has secured major government funding to continue to address homelessness in the city.
The government today (Thursday 17 September) announced that Exeter would receive £440,000 from its Next Steps Accommodation Programme as part of a commitment to end rough sleeping.
The Next Steps programme sees £91.5 million given to 274 councils across the UK to help vulnerable people housed during the pandemic.
Working with partners across the city, the funding will allow the Council to continue to support those accommodated during Covid-19
St Thomas Medical Group (STMG) consisting of St Thomas Health Centre, Exwick Heath Centre, and Pathfinder Village Surgery, has teamed up with Exeter City Council and Stagecoach South West to provide a creative and innovative solution to safeguard their patients who are eligible for flu vaccinations; which is believed to be the first of its kind in Devon.
Established in 1969, STMG has a total of 40,000 patients including the Student Health Centre on campus at the University of Exeter. This year, as the Government widens the eligibility criteria, the GP’s will need to administer...
Exeter City Council has launched an ambitious bid to address homelessness in the city.
If successful the Next Steps Accommodation Programme funding would continue to support those accommodated during Covid-19 and help to further address homelessness in the city.
The application with city partners looks to:
· Continue to provide accommodation until the end of March 2021 for the 42 accommodated under Covid and continue to reduce rough sleeping in the city
· Provide dedicated support for those accommodated in hotels
Exeter has become the first council in the UK to turn plastic bags collected from the kerbside into litter bin sacks, it has been revealed.
Green-thinking Exeter City Council has partnered up with plastic recycling company Jayplas for the UK first.
The ‘closed loop’ project sees waste polythene bags collected from households across the city and trade customers, sent to Jayplas’s new film sorting plant in Smethick.
Once there it is sorted into polymer type and colour, before being turned into recycled granules by washing and compounding the materials.
Council Leader Phil Bialyk has announced that he wants the running of the city’s leisure facilities to be brought back under the control of the City Council.
The current leisure contract with operator Legacy Leisure runs out in September, and the Council had been in the process of procuring a new operator.
But, due to the impacts of Covid-19, councillors will now consider ending that procurement process and bringing the services back in-house.
Staff working at the city’s leisure sites, which are currently closed due to coronavirus restrictions, would transfer to...
The first steps to replace an old bridge on Exeter Quayside that had come to the end of its life have taken place this week.
The wooden Mallison Bridge, which spans the medieval leats on the north bank of the River Exe, has been removed as its timbers had become rotten and unsafe to use.
Planning permission for a new pedestrian and cycle bridge was given in December 2018 and a new structure will be built as soon as adequate funding has been identified.
The old bridge had been closed since the end of 2018. Signs were erected and people advised to take a diversion...
